Washing-machine.



PATENTBD MAY 29, 1906.

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A. BIEELEY. WASHIU APPLIUA No. 821,850. PATENTED MAY 29, 1906. H. A. BIERLEY.

WASHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED 29, 1904.

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WASHlNG WlACHlNE.

Specification of Letters Fatent.

Patented May 29, 1906.

Application filed September 29, 1904. Serial N0. 226 466.

.To (LZZ whom may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY A. BIERLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portsmouth, in the county of Scioto and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful lms zd certain detailed structural features, substantially as hereinafter fully disclosed, and specifically pointed out by the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodlment of myimprova ments, Figure 1 is a vertical section produced on the line am of Fi 2. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section taken on tne line y y of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the main rubber, and Fig. 4 is a cross-section thereof through the dotted line. Fig. 5 is a brokeneway detailed perspective View upon a somewhat-enlarged scale, showing more fully the wringci-supporting bar or bracket. Fig. 6 is a vertical section produced through the central rub ber, disclosing more especially its rub-bar means of fastening for rendering the rub-bar readily removable. In the carrying out of my improvements I construct the clothes receptacle or tub 1 in general outline preferably oval or elliptical in'its vertical longitudinal section instead of circular or cylindric to provide, as in reciprocating or operating the same, for subjecting the fabrics to a proportionate increased rubbing action and to throw them with great forcev especially against the main rubbers, as will presently more fully appear. Said receptacle suitably hung in position and having upstanding hand-bars lfor its manual actuation, preferably as in said patent, has applied to its interior at suitable or equal intervals apart five (more or less) rubbers 2, 2*, and 2, each of general conical or tapering form and hollow or chambe1'ed, with their ends secured to the heads or sides of said receptacle, preferably by screws which 1 term the somewhat greater dimensions than the rubor like fastenings, the apices of said rubbers being presented toward the center of saidreceptacle. in general, thus far described, said rubbers, except to arrangement and number, correspond to the rubbers 3 and 4, respectively, of said patent, the rubber 2, main rubber, being of hers 2 2. These rubbers, however, while having their bottoms somewhat removed or distant from the opposite surface of the receptacle 1, as in said patent, are in commu nication with the interior of said receptacle, both the main rubber 2 and its more adjacent rubbers Q having lateral perforations or apertures 2 and 2, respectively, to permit water to percolate through their walls and the other rubbers 2 having each in its lower side or Wall an opening 2, extending nearly the entire length thereof, for the entrance of water to said rubbers,

Bodily the rubbers are formed each oi a metal member or portion 2, within which are suitably secured transversely thereof two end pieces 2, a central piece or partition 2, each of the same depth as said metal portion, and two shorter pieces 2, strengthening or bracing the latter, said metal portion having its lateral bottom edges extended or tucked inward under and suitably secured to the lower edges of said transverse pieces 2 and 2, i still further strengthening or bracing the rub-' here. The walls of both the rubbers 2 and 2 are longitudinally corrugated, as at 2' andv 2, respectively, being in this respect the same as the correspondingrubbers in said patent, while the relatively upper wall of each of the rubbers 2 is similarly corrugated, as at 2 for effectively acting upon the fab rice as the receptacle carrying said rubbers is reciprocated.

It will be noted that with the lower sides of the rubbers substantially entirely open the water passirn or surging thereinto will by its momentum bers during the actuation oithe receptacle, and thus be discharged therefrom with considerable force upon and aid to effectively cleanse the fabrics. A readily-removablc longitudinally-corrugatcd rub-bar 2*, having its inner surface conforming to the apex or tapering portion of the rubber 2,is applied to the latter and forms a continuation of the corresponding rubbin -surface thereof, said rub-bar being screwed or otherwise suitably secured to said rubber. This rub-bar has the advantage of being adapted to be removed be forced back out of said rub-- Ioo i been exhausted, and of being replaced by a new or efiective rub-bar and the same rubber still be retained for use.

Alongside of the entrance-opening 3 and depending within the receptacle 1 a suitable distanceare suitably secured to said receptastance having their lower end mg parts in said patent to guard said en-l be readily understood.

Intermediately of the various rubbers the mterior surface of the receptacle 1 has suitably secured thereto a corrugated meta] lining 5, forming rubbing-surfaces to aid A suitable wr'ngerrhold'er comprising a frame 5 has the normally lower or inner ends of .its lateral bars 5* pivoted to and Within the fabrics-receptacle-supporting frame 1', laterally. of said receptacle. The upper cross-bar 5 of the frame '5" is pivotally connected to and arranged between said lateral bars 5', preferably a short distance inwardfrom the upper or outer ends of the latter, so as toper nut said cross-bar to have axial movement or suitab e turned, as is obvious.v The purpose of this arrangement, it will be noted, is to. permit by hand the Wr n'ger in practice applidthereto to' 'stand in its norm-a1 position Whether said frame be moved into either of its in- 'olined positions,'as indicated by full and 'dot- -ted lines, as in providing for effecting the enr. 'T

provided" with suitable; sliding bolts 5, a'

ing from the spirit of my invention trance-opening as against the water splash ing therethrough out upon the floor, as will longitudinal corru the - lateral corrugated surface, a 'correspondin a corrugated rub-bar readi prisinglateral bars pivotally connected to 1y manipulating the cross-bar "5? by,

plied to its u per surface and arranged so as.

to be move or slid into suitable holes or, keepers 5, produced in the op osite'- sur+-' 45"j= faces of the lateralbars 5 of'the {H1155 for effecting the holding of said crosssbarfi in normal position when the Wringer is in op erative position. ole opposite deflectors or guards 4, in this interminals presented oppositely to that of the correspond-'' Latitude, it will be understood ,is

as to details herein, which may be changed as circumstances may suggest Without depart-r claim 1.- A washing-machine, having afm'ain ber,'.whose lateral walls are provided'with gat-ions, ,and-ga having corresponding coniug'ations r m ably applied to said rubber. Y I I v i 2. A washing-machine, hard-11garran 'e' 60; therein-at certain intervals apart a'n'uim' erif of tapered rubbers, each ha'vmg its -t'apered, portion presented toward the "center, of the: 'abrics-chamber and having corrugated an gaging surfaces, the relatively. centrally E, ranged rubber having, in continuation e om; 3. A washing-machine having-appliedftofia its clothes-receptaclesupport, a franxeto said support, a winger-supporting erq -b pivoted to said lateral bars, and means-upon said cross-bar and said lateral to hold a wring'er'substanti'ally erti'cai-QJ In testimony hereofl' -have m name to this specification in thegpre'sehc off two subscribi' g witnesses, Y l l r NRY B ER EY-TE Witnessesz d 7 JOHN M. PRESCOTT, Jr;

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